The archaeology of wak'as : explorations of the sacred in the pre-Columbian Andes /
In this edited volume, Andean wak'as-idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories-play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional...
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Boulder :
University Press of Colorado,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- ""12. Final Reflections: Catequil as One Wak�a among Many""""Contributors""; ""Index""
- ""6. Of Blood and Soil: Tombs, Wak�as, and the Naturalization of Social Difference in the Inka Heartland""""7. Men Who Would Be Rocks: The Inka Wank�a""; ""8. The Importance of Being Inka: Ushnu Platforms and Their Place in the Andean Landscape""; ""9. Ordering the Sacred and Recreating Cuzco""; ""Part IV: Deeper Histories of Wak�as in the Andean Past""; ""10. The Shape of Things to Come: The Genesis of Wari Wak�as""; ""11. Of Monoliths and Men: Human-Lithic Encounters and the Production of an Animistic Ecology at Khonkho Wankane""; ""Part V: Concluding Thoughts""
